The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-07-09
Vicinity Items.

The Illinois Baptist Sunday School In.
stitu'e will assemble at Sailor Springs on
July eth, and be In session until the Gath.
Mr.. Henning, owner of the Granville gas
we'll, Is not yet satisfied AMI boring began
again Wednesday The present depth Is
| 1916 feet How much deeper they viii, go
depends on ci cumstances. -Nacs Herdid
The new parsonage for the BelleVllle
Baptist church is to be built Immediately
and is to be completed by the first of Oc-
tobpr..
The Spring Valley Coal Company, in
boring we'll near Hollowayvills struck a
flow Of water at depth Of only 81 feet,
with sulii; pressure TO raise II 40 feet
above the surface.
Fred BuresS, aged about eighteen, and
youngest son OF Mr. and Mrs John b, Bur
ess, formerly of Ohio township, was
drowned while in bathing near Fl, Scott,
Kansas, where he was attending school.
Some boy burglUs, aged - and II ha
been committing depredations in Joliet. We
There is no denying the fact that DR.. Jones
| Red Clover Tonic is the most successful blood
| purifier ever put on the market. Its Won
derful cures in all stomach, kidney and liver
troubles has brought out many limitations. Ii
restores debilitated nerve tissues, restoring
the force lost by sickness, mental work or
excessive use of liquor, opium and tobacco.
f. Y, Griggs will supply the genuine at 90
cents a bottle.
II is rumored that the G.. b. q officials
will remove their division headquarters
from Mend lta TO Hawthorne, a little sta.
ton near Chicago, TIE change is to be
maze by reason of the greater convenience
1t will afford on the running of train gangs
The new hOse.dryng tower in the city
hall park In Menlota raises nearly 80 feet
in he ghr and looks like "A Chinese pagoda
attachment to the city hall, giving that ele-
CANT ,: structure quite an oriental look.
While f. o. Keagy and family, living a
few miles west of Decatur, were attending
circus Ia town, burglars entered their
home and stole $500 In n ties and consider.
able money.
The frdit shipemnnts from Centralis
this season amounted to about seventy car.
loads, of which the illinois Central took
81 ,014 crates, or sixty.seven carloads.
Mendoza Is interested in the location Of
h site for the new c., b. l. g. depot at
h It place.
driving park July 1921, There will be
three races each day.
The vigorous Saxon name, Hell's Bend,
applied to spot Ia Illinois, has been
changed to the seductive title, Pleasant
Grove.
Chatsworth Is wrestling with some new
street grading machines.
Frank Watson, of Chatwor'h, was seri-
ously injured last week in jumping from
wagon.
The parents of pair of Peru twins
named one Stimuli and the other Tanenus,
because they were born at the same time.
Charles Shaffer, a passenger brakeman
of the Wabash road. fell from third story
window at Daavills and was killed His
brother was killed on the Pennsylvania
railroad three weeks ago.
H. Holenbeck, wealthy farmer near
Rockford, was fl,eced out OF $4,000 by
three sharpers Two went to him to buy
h's farm, and while looking at it they met
the third, who by means Of cards tleeced
him out of the above SUN. They then es
capped.
ON last Friday morning the porochial
stable at La Sale burned, and with 1t two
horses Loss, about $500; Insured for
500.
On Sunday afternoon F. l.. Schuyler of
allie was drowned by the capsizing of
'On the river.
field the coal shafts take and
furnished by thu city, al
'nty of water at the shafts,
r Is less injurious to
the shafts pay as
u be given
of the